Homecoming

Last Saturday was the homecoming game against SUU. I still had to go home Thursday night for a doctor's appointment I had on Friday and to mow lawns, but I was excited to be able to go back up Saturday and finally spend some part of the weekend in Logan. After mowing early Saturday, I got all ready and was stoked to make it to Logan in time for the game when I got stuck on the freeway for 45 minutes because of an accident. It was frustrating sitting in my parked car knowing that I'll be late to the game. But I finally made it past the accident and was an hour late to the game. Once there everything was alright and I had a great time! My friends were all shocked to see me in Logan on a Saturday so it made it fun. Rylee and I bought a big snowie that we shared with everyone and then had a fun time chewing on our straws the rest of the night. Once the game was over and seeing that we finally won a game (53 to 34) we went to the dance afterwards and had a great time. I'm definitely excited for when I don't have to go home to mow anymore and I can just stay up in Logan and hang out with my friends, seeing as my friends at home are now all gone.

Chubby Cheeks

I got my wisdom teeth out Thursday and it wasn't a fun experience. I decided to do a study so I will get paid for testing out a new drug. The drug seemed to work fine for a while but I really just had a hard time with the Lortab that they gave me afterwards. I had to stay in the hospital for 24 hours which wasn't too bad. I just watched TV all day long and slept.

My sister-in-law Marcie was the one who picked me up from the hospital and boy am I glad to have her in my life. She really was my mom figure for most of the weekend taking care of me when I got sick and made sure I had food and medicine. She is usually the one who ends up taking care of me when something happens. I've decided she's my second mom haha. Thanks Marcie!! I also have to thank cute little Gracie because she definitely made me happy after the first time I threw up. Marcie had left to get me a Jamba and Gracie started crying in the car and so I went in the back seat to try to make her happy even though I wasn't happy myself. She immediately stopped crying and got this big huge grin on her face and started laughing! Ha no joke! She was totally laughing at my chubby cheeks I'm sure of it! So then how could I stay unhappy with my situation while looking at this cute baby just laughing at me. It definitely put a smile on my face.

Later that day after leaving the hospital and getting some rest, food and medicine, I headed to a family reunion. It was a big debate whether I should go but I wanted to and I'm glad I did. I probably should have stayed home to rest but I couldn't help resisting a chance to be with family even if I was in pain or felt sick. I had a good time dancing and catching up with family that I hadn't seen in a couple of years.

Saturday was the worst day because I was super chubby and in a lot of pain again. I threw up one more time but towards the end of the night I finally got food down and switched to Advil instead of Lortab. I'm now doing a lot better. My cheeks are still a little swollen but not bad and I'm still in a little bit of pain but it's going away thankfully. I'm now just bugged with the stitches and want to be able to brush my teeth normally and eat popcorn! Ha

But now that I'm over the whole weekend of pain, I can look back at some pictures and laugh. So here are a few:

This is before surgery

I had to show off the awesome outfit haha

Right after surgery. I was still out of it.

Twins! Both at birth and now with chubby cheeks :)

Gotta keep the swelling down haha

(I tried to walk around with ice packs on my face so I didn't have to let

people see how chubby I really was)

State Fair!

I went to the fair a little bit ago with Chantell Jarem and a couple of their friends. I was debating whether or not to go (because I wasn't sure if I'd have fun and feel weird being at least 5 years younger than everyone and that's only because of my sister, otherwise it's at least 16 years!) but they talked me into it and I was sure glad they did.

I had never been before so I didn't know what it would be like but I definitely had a great time! We first started out watching the rodeo which was only my second one I've been to and this one was pretty lame compared to the other one. It was still a good time. We then mostly walked around and saw all the animals which was a lot more fun than you think it'd be. We ended the night with a ride which was a giant slide and probably the best ride ever! Very fun.

Oh, and as we were walking out, we noticed a booth that said "Worlds Smallest Woman" so Mikey gave Chantell and I both $1 to go see her and pretty sure it was the most awkward thing of my life! It really was just some midget woman sitting on a little couch on a table! We didn't know what to do seeing as how we paid to see her. She's on display for people to pay to see her! I really wonder how she feels about that. She kept avoiding our eye contact though and it was just a very awkward experience. Ha definitely only something you'd see at the fair. But all in all I had a very good time and was glad I went. I'm excited to go next year to see what other surprises it has to offer me. :)

Me and Mikey watching the rodeo

Me and Chantell petting the biggest pig!

Yes, he actually kissed the pig..

and the cow..

and I also heard a goat but we didn't get a picture of that one..

Fat cows

cute lambs

This is the slide that is super fun. I totally won the second time we went down. :)

SYTYCD meets Ellen.. again..

I loved when Ellen was a judge on SYTYCD. It was one of my favorite episodes. Now as a result, Ellen had the top ten dancers on her show. I found this on the internet and loved it. I wish I would've seen the actual episode of the Ellen DeGeneres show. But watch it, it's pretty awesome:

Really though.. who knew Ellen could dance?!

Package!!

You know when you're having a bad day/week and all you need is something to happen to make things better? I wasn't having the best week because of the situation with my car and school starting to pick up with lots of homework. I've also been trying to find a job which is a very stressful thing but I desperately need one. So I was in a bad/depressing mood all week until Thursday when I went up for dinner and found out that I had a package! Trent's package finally came! It actually caught me off guard beacause he only sent it two weeks ago so it got here a lot sooner than I expected. But it was the thing I needed to forget about the stresses of my life. It came at the perfect time!

It is so great that someone who is far away in a different country can make me happy when I'm having a hard time. :)

My car hates Logan

Apparently there is something with Logan that my car doesn't like. I've only had two major problems with my car needing serious fixing and both have happened when I get up to Logan after a weekend back home. I am not a car person so I have no idea what to do when I notice some weird noise coming from my car. My dad normally is there to fix it but of course my dad isnt in Logan when something serious happens.

I think my car has finally reached its limit of being a good car. The transmission now has something wrong with it and will cost a lot of money to fix. It may be the end of the only car I've had since I turned 16. It is currently parked to the side of a road because it made a horrible noise and smelt very badly that I knew I wouldn't make it home. I had to sit in it for about an hour before someone was able to pick me up. It was a very stressful and emotional day. My dad is currently figuring something out to do, but it may result in just buying a new car that will solve the transmission problem and also get a bonus of working AC! That is the only good news about the situation.

I luckily have great people in my life that are willing to help me out in my now stranded position. I have been offered rides, a bike, and also to borrow cars for the week. It's made it a lot easier to get through the situation but I still don't like the fact of having to depend on other people to get to and from school every day.

I'm just frustrated my car had to break down on me. It's been a great car these past 3 years and I'll be sad if we do end up getting rid of it. It has cost me a lot of stress and money but I am still attached to it. I guess we'll see at the end of the week what the verdict is. Will we fix my car or get a new one?

The Posse

After my first week of being back at school, I came home for the weekend to spend some time with my good friend Nick Flynn who will be leaving very soon on his mission. Nick is the last of 6 close guy friends to leave. The 6 guys, Pace, Jace, Soup, Joey, Josh, and Nick all called themselves the Posse. These 6 guys were my best friends throughout my senior year of high school and now they are almost all gone. Since Nick is the last to leave, he was sad that his best friends wouldn't be there. So, being the clever guy that Nick is, he came up with a way to make sure they were there.

For a while now Nick has had an idea of making cardboard cutouts of the other 5 guys to place strategically throughout the room during sacrament for his farewell. Now of course this idea was shot down by his bishop but that didn't stop the idea of at least making the cutouts.

Saturday night came around (last night) and we decided we better put the plan into action since his farewell was the next today (today). We went to Zurchers and picked out 3 different cardboard cutouts: John Wayne, Zac Efron, and the Jonas brothers. After getting very weird looks from the workers, we purchased them and set off to start the process. It took us a long time to find good enough pictures of close up faces but we found some in the end. We blew them up and cropped the head out so they looked like floating heads on the computer screen. We had a few problems with printing the pictures out so we left that part till the very end. We grabbed a bunch of ties and tied them around all the cutouts and then I made name tags with white out on black paper. After all that, we finally were able to print out the pictures and tape them onto the cutouts faces. We had to cut the cardboard to fit the new face, which we called their "haircut" and once we did, our project was complete. We had our 5 good friends staring back at us and it was a great sight. We were very proud of ourselves because they all worked out so perfectly.

Floating Head

Before

Name tags

Jonas Brothers= Soup, Josh, & Jace

Zac Efron= Joey

John Wayne= Pace

Getting "haircuts"

After

The finished project on display in the entry way of Nick's house :)